Canada’s Heroes: Joseph Scriven (video)
Actually, there’s one more Canadian hero that we talked a little about over the summer. We’ve been learning a hymn by Joseph Scriven, who lived in Port Hope, Ontario (east of Toronto on Lake Ontario). The hymn is What a Friend We Have in Jesus.
Recently my Dad sent me this video telling the story of Scriven, so I thought I’d add it to make our list of heroes and uneven 3…
Read more about Joseph Scriven here at my Dad’s blog, and many more hymnwriters as well. My Dad’s book on Christmas carols, Discovering the Songs of Christmas: Meditations on Our Traditional Carols and Christmas Hymns, is scheduled for release this December.